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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2024
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Shunguo Yan, Austin, TX (US);

Steven D. Clay, Taylor, TX (US);

Michal Broz, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3271 (2013.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01); H04L 9/3226 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract

User authentication is provided. A most recent user secret block of a set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to a user is retrieved from a blockchain. The user is challenged using a question and answer pair contained in the most recent user secret block of the set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to the user. It is determined whether the user successfully passed the challenge using the question and answer pair contained in the most recent user secret block of the set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to the user. The user is authenticated to access a decentralized service in response to determining that the user did successfully pass the challenge using the question and answer pair contained in the most recent user secret block of the set of unprocessed user secret blocks corresponding to the user. The user is allowed to access the decentralized service.


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